You have a fairly impressive system for video editing.
Why only 4 gigs of Ram? You need 4-6 more gigs, especially when editing avchd with PowerDirector 8 and Windows 7 x64.
Sorry I don't have an answer to your question

Thanks for the reply. I dont have any more ram because of the memory configuration of 4 x 1 gb chips.

THe physical memory does not go over 2.4 gb while rendering so adding more pysical memory is immaterial.

Hi Lee,

Why only 4 gigs of Ram? You need 4-6 more gigs, especially when editing avchd with PowerDirector 8 and Windows 7 x64

I don't agree with that comment, although my 64 bit system has shown physical memory usage of 4.5gb at it's highest with PD8!

The best advice I can give you on this issue is to have a go and see for yourself. Certainly the latest build has proved the most stable when editing AVCHD that I've found, but that is me!

Cheers,

Andrew Alienware Aurora ALX R4 - Intel i7-4820 4.2 GHz - 32GB DDR3 RAM - Crucial 512GB SSD - 1TB Seagate HDD - 3TB WD Green HDD - 4TB WD Green HDD - MSI NVIDIA GTX 1070 8GB

Sony HDR-PJ810 and HDR-PJ530

I'm a it confused in ahll honesty. Some people say my spec is not good enough for editing while others say it is fine.

The way I see it is that my spec is ample however it might take longer to process.

Anyone have any thoughts on the quirk I experienced with the audio/video out of sync towards the end of a project?

I agree, your spec is ideal as far as I can see!

Cheers,

Andrew Alienware Aurora ALX R4 - Intel i7-4820 4.2 GHz - 32GB DDR3 RAM - Crucial 512GB SSD - 1TB Seagate HDD - 3TB WD Green HDD - 4TB WD Green HDD - MSI NVIDIA GTX 1070 8GB

Sony HDR-PJ810 and HDR-PJ530

Your computer is better than mine and I have no trouble editing AVCHD at 24 Mb/s 1920x1080i. Over the past few releases editing of Canon AVCHD and smart rendering in particular have improved greatly. I would download the trial again and give it a shot with your camera. Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT

Lee:
You might find with your system, that if you had more memory, your system would use more of that memory.
I'm sure you'll get by with it but 4 gigs is not proportionate to the rest of your system which as I said, is impressive being a 3.0 quadcore. If you had a smaller rig like some of the others around here I probably wouldn't have mentioned it.
Powerdirector will use more than 4 gigs it just depends what your doing and how capable your computer is.

Well, I downloaded and installed the latest tiral and the problem still exists. I used the same save file from last time (so i suppose the problem could be in there). I will have to remove and add a few clips in it to find out. Its really odd though because the problem only happens 40 minutes or so in. At the start its fine and well into the movie its fine as well.

Im all honesty, I doubt its the memory. When rendering i dont go over 2.5 gb. VMware on this machine will take the whole lot if I let it so I would expect PD to do the same if it needs it. After doing the 2gb file change it took more memory than it did initially. Either way, changing the memory is not an option. All slots are taken and I cant really afford to get more at this time.

MY system is quite old. Its not an I7 or anything its a Q6600 @ 3ghz if i rember rightly.

Really frustrating as I spent a week solid on this project and if it worked correctly i was going to buy the product. As it stands i'm downscaling all HD to normal DVD quality If i can get this working as it should on this one production i'll happily buy the product and be a convert!